Dr. Fontelo has been a Staff Scientist with the LHNCBC Office of High Performance Computing and Communications for more than ten years. He also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Biomedical Informatics Department of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). He is Board Certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology by the American Board of Pathology.

His research interests include medical informatics training, telemedicine/telepathology/mHealth, digital pathology, molecular pathology, global health, Information access at the point of care and in low-resource areas, evidence-based medicine, mobile health, hematology, critical appraisal of the literature, translational research, and geographic medicine.

Dr. Fontelo is a retired Army pathologist. His last assignment was at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, where he was the Chief of Telepathology and Staff Pathologist in the Department of Gastrointestinal Pathology. Prior to that he was Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at USUHS, where he was Course Director for a number of years. He has also had numerous assignments in research and hospital pathology, including in Belgium.

Education:

MD, University of the Philippines, College of Medicine

Master of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Diplomate, American Board of Pathology (Anatomic and Clinical Pathology)

Medical license: District of Columbia

Professional Activities:

Director, Biomedical Informatics Training Program

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Professional Organizations:

2003 to the present -- Member, American Medical Informatics Association

1996 -- Invited Lecturer, "The Internet and the Pathologist" and "Consultation System in the USA: Standard and Telepathology," International Academy of Pathology, Japanese Division and Japanese Society of Pathologists, Naha, Okinawa

1996 -- Invited Lecturer, "The Internet: Practical Applications to Pathology" and "Telepathology at the AFIP," International Society of Ophthalmic Pathology and American Society of Ophthalmic Pathology, Chicago

1996 -- Invited Lecturer, "Pathology Education and Consultation on the Internet" Third European Meeting in Telepathology, Zagreb, Croatia